The Chelsea F.C. Thread IV

Saw Bruma in the u20, the clear standout in an extremely terrible Portuguese squad. I mean, they had Heskey's lovechild leading their front line.



Bruma set up that chance iirc and he's technically sound and has trickery to his game. But damn man, this kid needs to learn a lot more and would end up ala Quaresma if he joins you guys. Reckon if he must leave Portugal, he should go to a mid table Spanish team.

Probably, the battle is over but the war is still on. A moment of silence for Nathan Ake who is next in line for this perilous journey of doom...

Probably, the battle is over but the war is still on. A moment of silence for Nathan Ake who is next in line for this perilous journey of doom...

If De Rossi comes, our we going to have a bench full of midfielders?
Ramires, Essien, Mikel won't get a look in.
Don't even think Mikel is going to go for a 16 million deal.
All we really need is 1-2 CB's and a striker who can do job - Midfield is more than enough to compete if not win the title.
In my opinion, I believe we have the best midfield by a distance with Luiz playing as a single CDM.
Lukaku/Ba/* - up front would be lethal
Defence needs to clear up mistakes and Ivanovic needs to learn to not go attack too often against good teams.
I'm sure with the introduction of Terry back into defense the goals leaking in the league should slow down hopefully.

A moment indeed. There are still more rings about here and each one of them has been tasked, it just so happens that Kalas was the first one there. A moment of thought goes to Gael Kakuta and PvA who have been on the journey the longest and have been thwarted at the Black Gate. Ake and Piazon may just be a glimmer of hope for all of Middle Earth.

Oh God, I'm loving this, we can go places with this story line xD

Yeah lol. I'm picturing Jose as Gandalf saving them - "YOU SHALL NOT BE LOANED".

Romeu to Valencia on loan confirmed.

A good move for Romeu. Surely we must be close to signing a CDM then, hopefully these cash + wallace on loan for De Rossi rumours are true, Wallace is only 19 and we're now pretty stacked at RB with Azpi/Ivanovic/Kalas/Essien all able to play the position so a loan would be good for him tbh.

Yep. De Rossi would be absolutely perfect. Just gotta get Rooney for our strikeforce too then we'll be set.

I don't suppose you've (or anyone else here) seen Wallace place before? I have no idea what he's like but reading elsewhere some seem reluctant to let him go. Wonder if he would come under the homegrown criteria -- we signed him when he was 18 I think so if he spends 3 seasons with the club that means he's homegrown? (Has to be from 16-21, I think).

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/220711.html#

Seems like we've made an 8 million for Bruma.

Am I the only one who doesn't actually want Rooney?

http://www.teamtalk.com/fanzone/15164/8818970/Inside-track-on-Chelsea-s-Marco-van-Ginkel

For anyone wanting to know more about van Ginkel, quite a good article from three Dutch writers.

Did you find that from Reddit by any chance?

Indeed I did

This thread is so inactive compared to the others.

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Even though Guardiola isn't great against us, I honestly cannot see us winning the Super Cup. (Yes I know it's very early to talk about this but whatever).

Don't know how well Van Ginkel or De Bruyne will do for us even though they look like promising players. Not sure about Rooney or De Rossi. But let's assume it goes fine...

-------------Rooney------------
--De Bruyne--Hazard--Mata---
--Van Ginkel--De Rossi--
--Cole--Terry--Luiz--Azpi

If not then replace De Rossi with Luiz, Luiz with Ivan, and Rooney with Lukaku.

Don't even know wtf Guardiola will use. How is he supposed to fit Thiago in?

Neuer
Lahm Martinez Alaba
Muller Thiago Schwei Kroos
Robben Götze Ribery

Schwein Martinez
Kroos
Muller Gotze Thiago

Probably not going to be the first one but I really don't know. But damn, that's a really really strong squad.




Looking forward to playing the all star teams to see how well some of our new players do.